The Six Nations gets underway this weekend and all Six teams in the competition are set to cash in big time with each Union getting €100,000 each, not bad for letting the cameras in, to see some of the inside action.
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It is believed that the Six Nations unions and CVC, the investment capital company that has taken a 14.3% stake in the championship, are to share £700,000 for providing access for the first season of the series that aims to bring the tournament to a global audience – although it won’t be broadcast until next year.
That fee will rise to £850,000 in total if there is a second season of the sport’s equivalent of Formula One’s ‘Drive To Survive’.
IRFU, the other five unions & CVC will receive £100,000 each for the privilege of having Netflix flies on the wall, but the implementation of a plan hatched by Six Nations bigwigs & CVC is proving problematic on the ground https://t.co/Lpthq5jOkP
— Rúaidhrí O'Connor (@RuaidhriOC) February 1, 2023
The players with the Netflix camera crew during the Six Nations pic.twitter.com/rdSsNVxGWi https://t.co/aqK7gIEJY8
— Ben Smith (@bensmithrugby) January 31, 2023